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UN maintains sanctions on Ivory Coast
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to maintain sanctions on Ivory Coast for another year, including an arms embargo and a ban on importing rough diamonds from the West African nation.
A resolution adopted by the council also renews financial sanctions and travel bans on political figures for violating human rights and blocking peace,...
Guinea-Bissau junta frees PM, president seized in coup
Bissau – Guinea-Bissau’s coup leaders released the country’s ousted prime minister and interim president on Friday after more than two weeks of captivity, allowing the former leaders to travel to Ivory Coast.
The generals now in charge of the small, unstable west African country also pledged a one-year transition back to democracy,...
In Pictures: Senegalese Soldiers US Military Training
Senegalese soldiers take part in a military training for Army Nurses during a multinational naval training exercise dubbed ‘Saharan Express’ as part of the military cooperation between the Unites States and Senegal, in Dakar on April 25, 2012. The Naval exercise will run from April 23 to April 30, 2012 along the Senegalese, Cape Verde’s...
In Pictures: Ghana Vaccines
In 2008, the last year for which full data is available, more than 54,000 Ghanian children died before they had reached their fifth birthday. Public health officials say 20 percent of those deaths were from pneumonia and diarrhoea. So this year, starting this week, Ghana will vaccinate the first babies in a new campaign against rotavirus – a cause...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor convicted of crimes against humanity
A victim watches the trial of Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor (on screen) taking place in the Hague, inside the Special Court in Freetown on April 26, 2012.
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE : Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor was convicted on Thursday on war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone, prosecutors said.
The Special Court...
In Pictures: Young woman goes through the process for deportation
Nigerian citizen Ruth Benjamin arrived in the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk as a student. She is now being deported for a visa violation.
In Pictures: Horror of the ThisDay Suicide bombing
A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives Thursday, April. 26, 2012 at the office of the major Nigerian newspaper in the country’s capital and another man threw a bomb near another newspaper office in Kaduna, killing at least six people in the attacks, witnesses said.
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